| CORDONBLEU | Ribbon, blue variety for cookery of a very high standard (6,4) |
| BLEU | Cordon -; derived from a blue ribbon worn by the knights of the Holy Ghost, a term for cookery of the highest class (4) |
| HAUTECUISINE | Cookery of a very high standard (5,7) |
| DELIASMITH | Food shop with variety of hams holding appeal for cookery writer (5,5) |
| AQUAMARINE | Pale greenish-blue variety of beryl used as a gemstone (10) |
| EXCELLENT | Beat fast time that's of a very high standard (9) |
| AGOODPHOTO | Pogo had too much variety for satisfactory image. (1,4,5) |
| TRADEPAPER | "Variety," for one |
| MOCKORANGE | Guy wants old variety for shrub |
| LAPISLAZULI | A brilliant blue variety of a rare mineral, used as a gemstone (5,6) |
| MOUNTAINTOP | Summit of a very high hill (11) |
| ELVAN | Name in Devon and Cornwall for a quartz-porphyry with a blue variety (5) |
| ARM | Half of a very high price? |
| MBA | Letters of a very high degree? |
| BLUEJOHN | A purple-blue variety of fluorite occurring only in Derbyshire (4,4) |
| SAPPHIRE | Clear, hard, usually blue variety of corundum used as a gemstone (8) |
| SARD | Banks of river littered with blue variety of chalcedony (4) |
| NUTOIL | Term for nuciferous oleaginous essence or extract of almonds, argan seeds, Brazils, noisettes or other kernels for cookery, cosmetics or conditioning one's coif (3,3) |
| COMEDINEWITHME | Chow mein diet, wrong first half of meal for cookery show (4,4,4,2) |
| HEN | Some soldiers from Delaware supposedly took a blue variety of this along when they fought in the American Revolution |
